an anecdote           
                                          
 today  it rained, and i would go outside 
 i  thought,  so i smoked  a pipe and got 
 dressed,  and   outside   the  rain  had 
 turned into  snow so  thick  that it was 
 as dense fog ...  and then i went to get 
 the mail,  but there was a  woman and we 
 talked a little. now because i was  high 
 and it was snowing  so funny and  i  had 
 an umbrella against  the snow, but  snow 
 all over my face anyway,  and i wondered 
        about myself, and my life